Category: Mac Treat

Last week I wrote about how to use Front Row without an Apple remote. A few readers wrote in to find out how to pair their Apple remote with their Mac. As it is, all Macs and all Apple remotes ship unpaired. This means you can use a single Apple remote to interfere with all…

Following the recent upgrade of AirPort Extreme to 7.3.1 I attempted to mount my connected Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive. I discovered a few things: 1) The FreeAgent Drives cannot be formatted for Mac by Leopard Disk Utility. I used a Tiger machine to format the drive as Mac Extended with journalling and it was recognized…

By Matt, matt@smalldog.com We all know that you can select text, and use the mouse to drag the selected text to the desktop (to make a clipping), from one document to another, or within a document. There is more to dragging and dropping: If you keep Dictionary in your dock, you can select a word…

Did you know that that Apple no longer bundles a remote control with new MacBooks and Macbook Pros? Granted, few people actually ever used those little remotes, but they were still a fun toy to get with a new Mac notebook. The remote could be used to control Keynote or PowerPoint and other apps, but…

On a Mac, the “menu bar” is the horizontal strip at the top of screen. From left to right, the menu bar starts with an Apple icon, then the name of the currently active application, then a series of drop down menus specific to that application (for example, in Mail the drop down menus are…

First, this tip applies to Safari 2 and Safari 3. Safari 3 is the default web browser in Leopard. If you’re like me, you have hundreds of bookmarks in Safari. All these bookmarks are very convenient, but can also become unwieldily. Luckily, Apple makes it easy to organize Safari’s bookmarks, including nesting them into folders…

I often need to step away from my Mac, and want it to go into Sleep mode. With a MacBook or MacBook Pro, I can simply close the lid and step away. However, when I want to put my iMac to Sleep, I need to mouse up to the the blue Apple in the upper…

(Note: this tip works in both Tiger and Leopard.) If you’re like me, you’ve downloaded a bunch of widgets for your Mac’s Dashboard that you no longer use. Pink Floyd Reunion Tour Watch widget – never mind, they’re never reuniting. Expos baseball schedule – they’ve moved to Washington DC and changed their name. John Edwards…

Many new Mac users don’t realize that any document you can print in OS X can also be saved as a PDF. PDF stands for “Portable Document Format.” PDFs are often the easiest way to exchange document files between Macs and PCs, as well as between different versions of Mac and PC operating systems (such…

Let’s face it: iWeb is a lot of fun, and so easy to use, but it lacks some features. But this is not the article that goes over every single feature we’d like to see added to iWeb. No, this article is for the person who appreciates iWeb’s simplicity, but wants to make it do…